The CoachTide blog

Guides for running a coaching practice.

Practical, honest writing on the parts of coaching nobody trains you for: onboarding clients, getting paid, tracking your ICF hours, and choosing tools that fit the work instead of fighting it.

Running Your Practice

Your Coaching Platform Shut Down. Here Is a Calm Way to Move.

A calm, step-by-step checklist for coaches moving off a shut-down platform like Practice or Profi, with an importer that never reads your client data.

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Choosing Software

The Coaching CRM That Was Not Built to Close Deals

Most CRMs are sales tools you bend into coaching. CoachTide is built around coaching relationships and credential progress, not deal pipelines and quotas.

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Running Your Practice

Getting Paid Without Chasing: Invoicing for Coaches

Chasing unpaid invoices is the worst part of coaching admin. Here is how to set up billing that follows up for you, so you get paid without nagging.

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Credentialing

How CoachTide's ICF Hours Log Actually Works

How CoachTide totals your ICF coaching hours: session duration plus reciprocal-exchange pairs, with client names shown as initials for privacy.

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Credentialing

What Actually Changes in ICF Credentialing on April 1, 2027

The ICF credentialing changes for April 2027, explained plainly: what moves, what stays the same, and what it means for your ACC, PCC, or MCC path.

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Running Your Practice

The Real Cost of Running Your Coaching Practice on Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets feel free, but they cost a coaching practice in lost hours, billing errors, and revenue that quietly leaks away. Here is the true price.

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Running Your Practice

Intake That Fills Itself: Stop Re-Typing Your New Clients

Most coaching intake forms create a second copy of the client you then re-key by hand. Here is what self-filling intake looks like, and why it matters.

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Running Your Practice

The Admin That Ends Coaching Careers (and Why It Is Not Your Fault)

Good coaches quit over admin overwhelm, not coaching. The problem is paperwork that does not fit how many brains work, not a deficit in you.

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Buying Guides

Best Coaching CRM Software in 2026: What to Look For

A buyer's guide to coaching CRM software in 2026. The criteria that actually matter, an honest look at the main tools, and how to choose for your practice.

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Running Your Practice

What to Put on a Coaching Intake Form (With a Template)

A practical guide to building a coaching client intake form, what to ask, what to skip, and a copy-and-paste template you can use today.

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Running Your Practice

Why Coaches Outgrow Spreadsheets (and What to Use Instead)

Spreadsheets run a coaching practice fine, until they do not. Here is exactly where they break and what to move to when they do.

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Credentialing

How to Track Your ICF Coaching Hours for ACC, PCC, and MCC

A practical guide to logging ICF coaching hours toward your ACC, PCC, or MCC, what counts, paid vs pro bono, and the CCEUs you need to renew.

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Buying Guides

The Less Annoying CRM Alternative Built for Coaches

Less Annoying CRM is a great simple CRM, but it is built for sales, not coaching. Here is an honest comparison and a coaching-purpose-built alternative.

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Running Your Practice

Running a Coaching Practice With a Neurodivergent Brain

Practice management for ADHD and neurodivergent coaches. The admin overwhelm is a design problem, not a character flaw, and the right systems fix it.

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